Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh